Bishoprick Garland, The 254
sheep 216
sheep farming 8
shepherds 9, 171
Shining Cliff Woods 184
Shoreditch 159
Shoreditch Church 150
Shrove Tuesday 75
Siege of Oxford 204
Simple Simon 190-93
Simple Simon’s Misfortune(chapbook ballad) 192
Sing a Song of Sixpence 35, 139, 193-8
skipping rhymes 90
Skye Boat Song, The 34, 99, 246, 260-62
slapstick 164
slave trade 242-4
slavery 267
abolition 244
Smith, John Stafford 263
Smithfield Riots 101
sneezing 180, 182, 183
Solemn League and Covenant 204
Solomon Grundy 7, 198-200
Song of Hiawatha, The 205
songbirds 194
Songs of Innocence and Experience 128
South Sea Bubble 209
Southey, Robert 194, 231
Southwark 221
Spanish Armada see Armada Sphinx 86
spiders 110, 112
spirituals 268
Spitalfields 159
Spratt, Jack 94
Stanley, Edward 153 ‘Star, The’ 226
Star-Spangled Banner, The 262-4
stealing 218
steam ships 16
Steevens, George 193-4
Sterea Ellada 127
Stirling 132-3
Stuart dynasty 97
Sturlson, Snorri 89
Sufis 19
sun 137
swallows 171
sweatshops 159
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 65, 256, 265-70
Swinton, John 13
symbolism 253
Taffy Was a Welshman 200-201
tarmacadam 31
Taurus (constellation) 69
taxation 102
taxes 10
Taylor, Jane ‘Star, The’ 226
tea 102
‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’ 250
teenagers 74
Tempest, The 29
Tenniel, John 83, 168, 222
Tewkesbury, Battle of 60
Thames (river) 117, 120, 185
There Was a Crooked Man 43, 202-4
There Was a Little Girl 205-6, 231
There Was a Little Guinea Pig 206-7
There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe 208-9
Thessaly 127
Third Crusade 93
Thirty Years’ War 202
This Is the House That Jack Built 236
Thor 137
Thorne, John 109
Three Acres of Land 210-12
Three Blind Mice 35, 85, 107, 134, 145, 212-16
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There 83, 222
thumbscrews 135
Times(newspaper) 161
tobacco 102, 119, 140
Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son 216-18
Tomlinson, Ralph 263
Tower of London 12, 32, 59, 60, 66 69, 109, 134, 174, 261
Trafalgar, Battle of 54, 172
treason 51
Treaty of London 203
Turn Again, Whittington 39, 121, 151, 218-21
‘Twa Lasses, The’ 12
Tweedledum and Tweedledee 83, 222-5
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star 226-8
two fingers 38
Tyr 137
Underground Railroad 266-8, 270
unicorn 97
Ursa Major (constellation) 70, 268
US Navy 264
V-sign 38
vaccination 90
vagrants 56
Victoria, Queen 168
Vienna 155
Villiers, George, Duke of Buckingham 45-6, 47
Wakefield, Battle of 60
Wakefield prison 64
Wales 201
devolution 201
Walpole, Sir Robert 208, 237
Wampanoag 186
War of Jenkins’ Ear 245
War of the Austrian Succession 246
Ward, James 185
Wars of the Roses 58, 67, 68
Warwick, Earl of 60
Warwick Castle 68
Waste, Joan 215
Waterloo 54
Wedderburn, Robert 42
Complaynt of Scotland 42
Wee Willie Winkie 23, 228-30
welfare state 114
Wellington, Duke of 54
Welsh mythology 201
Wenceslas Square 248
Wessex 176
West Indies 242
Westminster Abbey 46
‘What All the World Is Made Of 231
What Are Little Boys Made Of? 230-33
Wheatley, Dennis 43
whisky 196
Whitehall, palace of 4
Whittington, Dick 151, 218-21
Whitworth 21
Whitworth Church 22
Who Killed Cock Robin? 28, 122, 233-7, 253
‘Whore of Babylon’ 179
Whyting, Richard 106, 109
Wilberforce, William 244
William of Orange 55, 56, 57, 184, 228-9
William Rufus 236-7
William the Conqueror 236
Willis, Wallis 265-6, 270
Wilson, President Woodrow 264
Wise Men 253
witches 23
Woden 137
Wolsey, Cardinal 104, 144-5, 146
wool 8, 9, 10, 11
export 10
woolsack 11
Worcester 105
workhouses 189
Yankee Doodle Dandy 123, 270-71
yellow fever 90
York 9
York, Duke of see Frederick, Duke of
York Young Pretender see Bonnie Prince Charlie
Zeus 127